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Bag of Randomness for Monday, August 3, 2015

My father would have turned 92 yesterday. Even if he lived a life without smoking, I’d doubt he’d live that long. He died back in 1998.

Things my father always carried in his pocket, and things I don’t many men carry on their person today – handkerchief, comb, pocket knife, change.

Thirty years ago yesterday, nine-year-old Geeding was on his first airplane ride. We departed DFW to Hawaii on a Delta flight and it wasn’t until we checked into our hotel room we learned that Delta Flight 191 crashed after our takeoff from DFW. For some reason I thought there were no survivors, but I’m wrong.

Speaking of DFW Aiport, there was a comment on a Reddit thread about the airport that caught my attention. Here’s a summarized version – “I helped build that terminal. You would not believe where the jail cells are hidden. When you step off the plane and step onto the actual terminal, you are no more than 30 paces from one. The next time you’re there look around right before you enter the tunnel. If you see a panel that has some smudges or fingerprints that’ll be the panel hiding the cell entrance. Forget about screaming or using your cellphone because it will be useless. It’s sound proof and has a Faraday cage built into the walls.”

I started to read a Reddit thread about generational nicknames, but it didn’t cite any reliable sources. It stated, “the nickname ‘Skip’ identifies someone who has the same first name as their grandparent but not their parent, essentially ‘skipping’ a generation.” So that means my son, Walter, can use the nickname, “Skip”. That’s a bit funny for me, as my first dog was named “Skip” or “Skippy”. My brother only referred to him as “Skipper” because he stated the dog was named after the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ character. For a third generation that has the same first name, “Trip” or “Trey” can be used. For the fourth generation, the name “Ivey”. The fifth generation carrying a name may be referred to as Quincy, or Quinton.

I discovered there’s an old and unkept cemetery in Augusta County, Virginia named Geeding-Keller Cemetery.

U2 will have two specials on HBO that wil air in November, and means it’s their early Christmas present to me. A behind the scenes documentary about the conceptualization of the new tour will air on Saturday, Nov. 7, and then a week later the concert they performed in Paris on that day will air.

We ate at Back Forty Smokehouse in North Richland Hills on Friday and it has now cracked the top five of my best BBQ list. My listing is mostly based off brisket. Pecan Lodge is still the reigning champ, followed by a tie of Lockhart and Hutchins, then Back Forty and Meet U Anywhere. Back Forty offered a very moist brisket, decent smoke penetration, a nice char with a rub that provided a bit of kick that wasn’t too much but just enough to be noticed. Their menu is plentiful and the atmosphere is grand.

A ‘dive-bar TopGolf’ called the Goat Ranch is coming to East Dallas – They are going for the redneck or deep woods approach as evident by this sentence – The owners envision the concept more like golf target practice, and are currently scouring Craigslist and junkyards for a variety of things that will make noise and break when you hit them. Think rusty cars, metal signs, mannequins, dunk tanks and other “rusty old cool stuff,” said Spivey.

The electric bill came in the mail Friday, and for our two-story house the total was $241.

Armchair political pundit time – The news of VP Joe Biden making a presidential run is growing, and most of the stories relate to his son telling him to do so on his deathbed. If that’s true, whoever leaked that story has no spine. I heard a story about a year ago that makes more sense. He’s always wanted to be president but knew there wasn’t a way to beat Hillary or cause a huge party division, but since he’s the next most qualified candidate for his party, he’d stay on the sidelines ready to go just in case the S.S. Clinton started to spring some leaks, which it appears to be doing.

My laptop is five years and I found a great deal on a new solid state drive (SSD). The data transfer took less than I thought, a little less than two hours for $200 GB of data, and the actual physical install was super easy. I’m really impressed with the upgraded performance of my laptop, it’s like having a new computer. Bootup time is super fast, and it opens a Word or Excel doc in less than two seconds. Before the upgrade, it took a good thirty seconds for those apps to open.

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5 Responses to Bag of Randomness for Monday, August 3, 2015

"handkerchief, comb, pocket knife, change." My dad grew up during the Depression and those were the items he carried everyday, although he normally wore a suit jacket or sports coat and the handkerchief would be carried in his breast pocket..

I've never heard that explanation for the derivation of "Skip" , but it sorta makes sense, a little.